Research IT

provides research data and computing technologies, consulting, and community for the UC Berkeley campus. Our goal is to advance research through IT innovation.

Status and Service Updates

No office hours Thanksgiving Break: Wed, 11/27 - Thurs, 11/28

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we will not be holding office hours on Wed, 11/27 or Thurs, 11/28. Thursday and Friday are university holidays so we will be limited in our responses until we resume service on Monday, 12/2. Please contact us by e-mail in the meantime.

No office hours for Winter Break 12/23-1/14

Research IT office hours will be closed for Winter Break between Monday, 12/23 - Tuesday, 1/14 and resume as normal on Wednesday, 1/15. Please contact us in the meantime at via e-mail.

Savio Scratch file system is back! Sat. 11/16

Our admin team has worked tirelessly to restore the Savio cluster's scratch system. The cluster functionality is now back to normal, and we are thankful for your patience and support throughout the process. We also appreciate users' continuing efforts to clean up and move their (un-needed) files out of scratch. As a part of best practices, we urge users to keep backing up their files from scratch to permanent storage discs and avoid storing massive numbers of tiny files in scratch for long periods.

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News Articles

Modeling heat dispersion in pebble-bed reactors: April Novak

October 31, 2018

April Novak, a doctoral candidate in UC Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering, works with Asst. Professor Rachel Slaybaugh to develop modeling software that helps validate the safety and feasibility of advanced pebble-bed reactor (PBR) designs, and supports the licensing process for PBRs...Read more about Modeling heat dispersion in pebble-bed reactors: April Novak

Publisher Data Requirements Revisited

October 24, 2018

In May and September of 2017, the Library wrote posts (read them here and

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Farewell and thank you to Quinn Dombrowski

September 21, 2018

I first met Quinn Dombrowski at the University of Chicago in May 2008, at the second workshop of Project Bamboo, a cyberinfrastructure initiative aimed at supporting the digital humanities. By the end of that three-day workshop it had become clear that she was the get-stuff-

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